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We are in the midst of a great revolution the payments space: anyone with a phone can now accept credit cards; online-to-offline commerce is allowing online payment for offline purchase and significant friction is being removed from the consumer purchase experience thanks to mobile. All of this innovation (read: competition),...

thenextweb.com

On November 1st, the Decoded Fashion event takes place to connect retailers, technologists and startups around the world of style to see what plans they can hatch for the future. As part of the event, ten startups have been chosen to pitch for the chance to win $65,000 investment from...

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On the heels of yesterday’s news that Microsoft is investing $300 million in Barnes & Noble’s Nook and college businesses, B&N CEO William Lynch says that the company plans to embed NFC (near field communication) chips into Nooks. Users could take their Nook into a Barnes & Noble store and...

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Fashion Week may be over, but designers, editors, retailers, and entrepreneurs work year round to keep the style cycle going. This Thursday, Decoded Fashion London is throwing The Fashion Pitch, a fashion and retail pitch competition where 10 startups will compete for first place. Decoded Fashion puts on events...

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eBay is debuting new “shoppable window” virtual stores over the course of this month and next (via Reuters), to help retailer Fifth & Pacific Companies Inc. sell its new line of Kate Spade Saturday clothing on window display screens measuring 9 feet by 2 feet, which cover the windows of...

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Now that all of that Microsoft-related news is out in the open, Barnes & Noble's CEO William Lynch is ready to talk about the future. Fortune sat down with him to discuss the deal and what's next for the Nook. The answer to the latter is, at least in...

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After its disappointing IPO last month cast doubts on the company’s ability to monetize its vast user base, Facebook today announced a subsciption pricing model - potentially adding a recurring source of revenue for itself - and for developers of Facebook apps. The new service, announced on Facebook’s Developer Blog...

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There’s a reason why so many developers feels iOS users are more valuable than Android: Apple is killing it in mobile gaming with 84 percent of all mobile gaming revenue in the US. “When analyzing Apple’s successful monetization, there is one dominant factor outside of differences in audience demographics...

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After announcing its intention to end Facebook Credits last March, Facebook has launched the local currency payments API today. Replacing Facebook Credits, the local currency payments API has been put in place to simplify purchase experience, improve payments flow and make it easier to price virtual goods globally. Facebook has...

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[This post is by Ibrahim Elbouchikhi, Product Manager on the Google Play team. —Dirk Dougherty] We launched In-app Billing on Google Play a year ago to give developers more ways to sell and engage users over the lifetime of their apps. Since the launch, In-app Billing has been extremely...

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Amazon's Appstore has offered a typical application acquisition experience, save for one important detail: in-app purchasing. Beginning today, devs can now take advantage of the familiar revenue booster already available in the iOS App Store and Google Play, through the use of the Amazon Appstore In-App Purchasing API. The...

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Barnes & Noble’s Nook eReader business is expected to see continued growth and was recently spun off into a new subsidiary that Microsoft invested $300 million in. The company’s CEO William Lynch sat down with Fortune and spoke about the future of the Nook business, and the executive said NFC-equipped...

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The world of payments is being turned over by the likes of Square, PayPal, Stripe and others, which are tackling the idea of payments based on hardware terminals, and new services that focus on innovations in smartphones and tablets with functionality coming by way of software iterations. Not to be...

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Google just made Android an even more compelling option for app developers looking to make a buck. The company today is launching in-app subscription on Google Play, more than a year after it first brought in-app billing to Android. By standardizing in-app billing, Google made it easier for developers...

thenextweb.com

For years, large conglomerates of telcos as well as startups, have been battling in the field around wallet solutions. It seems only logical that it’s an area that is ripe for disruption. But are wallet solutions a promised unicorn where the actors in the field are a couple of years...

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Barnes and Noble's flagship. (flickr.com/edenpictures) Yesterday Barnes & Noble announced a splashy Microsoft partnership, complete with major cash infusion. Today, Fortune has a Q&A with CEO William Lynch, speculating on how the bookseller can leverage NFC technologies. Whatever its eventual fate, this company seems damned determined that if there's an obituary involved,...

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We’ve previously written about how Hipmunk has been setting out to hook the world’s savviest travelers ever since the San Francisco startup launched in the summer of 2010. Now, the travel search startup is going that extra step by enabling direct hotel bookings in its Web and mobile apps. Hipmunk’s...

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Facebook’s very quiet announcement last week that is dropping Facebook Credits in favor of local currency pricing was likely the quietest declaration of war the world has seen. The notice, made on the company’s developer blog, means Facebook is taking on payments providers PayPal, Google Wallet, and, perhaps preemptively, Apple’s iTunes. Plink...

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Nokia unveiled a new platform for its Asha range of smartphones and feature phones today, which puts a greater on apps and offers two separate screens, called ‘Home’ and ‘Fastlane’. It’s unclear whether this is an entirely new mobile operating system, or a re-engineering of the Series 40 platform which...

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Facebook on Monday announced a more specific timeline for its Facebook Credits switch to local currency pricing. The company is now hoping to launch the new feature some time in Q3 2013, after which it will give game developers 90 days to switch over before the mandatory change. Facebook first...

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Paypal is demonstrating a new digital wallet at SXSW Interactive today. At the conference, Sam Shrauger, Paypal’s vice president, global product and experience, revealed that the Paypal wallet will free consumers’ money to let them “connect it, filter it, personalize it, share it, and make it work for the...

www.pehub.com

CardSpring, a Palo Alto-based payments infrastructure startup, has raised $10 million in Series A financing led by Accel Partners and Greylock Partners, with SV Angel, Morado Ventures, Felicis Ventures, and WIN also participating. PRESS RELEASE: Payments infrastructure startup CardSpring announced today the raise of a $10M Series A investment led by...

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Facebook today provided updates regarding its transition from Credits to local currency pricing. The company offered new documentation for game developers and announced that migration will occur in Q3 this year. Facebook decided to phase out Credits in favor of a user’s local currency — dollars, pounds or yen, for example...